Refining Assumptions About Specialty Compensation Rates

To the Editor Childers and Maggard-Gibbons found that overall compensation rates under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule fell within a narrow range for most specialties. We applaud their effort to perform a comprehensive assessment that includes a broad range of clinical activities. However, we believe that the study relies on 2 potentially problematic assumptions.

Source: JAMA Surgery - November 1, 2020 Category: Surgery Source Type: research